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Cover Story: Stocking Policies and Procedures |
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for Automated Dispensing Cabinets By Jared J. Cash, PharmD Given the recent and much-publicized medication errors involving heparin overdoses, as well as the release of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices’ “Guidance on the Interdisciplinary Safe Use of Automated Dispensing Cabinets,” hospitals across the country are taking an even harder look at... |
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The Clinical and Financial Impact of CPOE |
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A Q&A With Wendy Everett, ScD, President, New England Healthcare Institute
Q: What was the impetus behind the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) and the New England Healthcare Institute’s (NEHI) Clinical Baseline and Financial Impact Study on CPOE?
A: MTC and NEHI formed a partnership four years ago to look at all of the health technologies that could both improve patient care and reduce cost...
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Liquid Unit Dose Packaging Machines |
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A Sound Purchase for Health-System Pharmacies
By John Falkenholm, PharmD
Tabletop liquid unit dose packaging machines offer a great deal of flexibility in terms of the packaging of oral liquids, particularly when manufacturer shortages of unit dose products arise. Far faster than the manual unit dose packaging of oral liquids...
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Pharmacy’s Role in Environmental Stewardship |
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How “green” is your pharmacy? Does your pharmacy recycle?
How do you prevent pharmaceuticals from impacting the environment? Does pharmaceutical waste from your pharmacy enter the local water supply?What is your pharmacy’s environmental footprint? These questions are not currently top of mind for most of us in pharmacy... |
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Engineering Controls Requirements |
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For Non-Hazardous Drugs
Developed by Carl LaBella of CSI Testing, Inc., the following flowchart details USP<797>'s engineering controls requirements for the compounding of all volumes of non-hazardous drugs. Look for a flowchart of the USP chapter's engineering controls requirements for hazardous and radioactive drugs in the September issue of Pharmacy Purchasing & Products.
Click here to download the flowchart.
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What Our Readers Are Saying About PP&P... |
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“I read Pharmacy Purchasing & Products
from cover to cover. It’s the first place I look for information on
automation, devices, and USP <797>..."
-Firouzan “Fred” Massoomi, PharmD, FASHP
Nebraska Methodist Hospital
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By Lou Diorio, RPhLike a comprehensive blueprint, USP <797>, when read in its entirety, provides a science-based roadmap to fulfilling its primary objective – preventing patient harm. When implementing the standards set forth in the...
Address TJC Guidelines Now for a Successful Survey in 2009By Kurt A. Patton, MS, RPh Widely used for multiple clinical indications, anticoagulation therapies require close dose monitoring and...
PP&P: Are You a Part of It?
When we launched Pharmacy Purchasing & Products five years ago, the idea for a magazine containing practical purchasing guidance was not new; after all,...